Isabelle Olmo > Quotes

“Sheathe your talons, you dragon.”
― Isabelle Olmo, Queen and Conqueror

“They clasped one another, the griffin and the sea dragon curled in a battle embrace.”
― Isabelle Olmo, Queen and Conqueror

“She understood that grief and wounds would haunt them some days. Those waves would engulf them. But on other days, the sea would gift them a respite.”
― Isabelle Olmo, Queen and Conqueror

“Do not fear death. Death should be afraid of you.”
― Isabelle Olmo, Lady of Istok

“I’m a little broken, but I still stand,”
― Isabelle Olmo, Lady of Istok

“Youth was such an odd thing. You were too young to know much, but when you crossed the threshold into adulthood, they resented you for not knowing enough.”
― Isabelle Olmo, Lady of Istok

“He’d been a stone for so many years that the pit of his heart was a calcined organ long left to rot.”
― Isabelle Olmo, Lady of Istok

“Hira certainly felt damned. Corroded and twisted. Bent at an unnatural angle, unable to straighten and be who she once was. Perhaps this is what people called 'growing up'. A most unpleasurable journey.”
― Isabelle Olmo, Lady of Istok

“The thing with loneliness is that when you’re in it, it feels eternal and the malignant thoughts housed in one’s head come out for a midnight dance, delighting in one’s sorrow.”
― Isabelle Olmo, Lady of Istok

“Sometimes sadness is so dire and deep that tears are inadequate.”
― Isabelle Olmo, Lady of Istok

“Men will never be ready for women like us, and it is not our job to ready them.”
― Isabelle Olmo, Queen and Conqueror

“You’re a queen. Fear does not become you,”
― Isabelle Olmo, Queen and Conqueror

“It smelled of piss and ale, and the scent wafted up and serenaded the inhabitants with its constant rendition of nighttime retellings.”
― Isabelle Olmo, Queen and Conqueror

“She supposed all death was a surprise even if one lived a long life. Like an expected friend’s visit that arrived early and startled you when they knocked.”
― Isabelle Olmo, Lady of Istok

“Fools ask how they will die. The wise ask how they will live.”
― Isabelle Olmo, Lady of Istok

“Let her be the sun to the kingdom; he would be waiting for her by moonlight.”
― Isabelle Olmo, Queen and Conqueror

“She was a painting where only the edges were drawn and all the wild, vibrant colors were yet to bring the image of life.”
― Isabelle Olmo, Lady of Istok

“I’ll bow to no king,”
― Isabelle Olmo, Queen and Conqueror

“You forget I am a woman; courage doesn’t define our character.”
― Isabelle Olmo, Queen and Conqueror

“The brown of his eyes was the beginning of the earth. The pits and hallows of mountains were painted in his irises.”
― Isabelle Olmo, Lady of Istok

“The end is never written. Only the beginning.”
― Isabelle Olmo, Lady of Istok

“It'll take more than one man to break you.”
― Isabelle Olmo, Queen and Conqueror

“His handsome face was illuminated by the moon and her cool light, the light of lovers, showcased his beauty.”
― Isabelle Olmo, Queen and Conqueror

“Men seldom respect us despite our abilities. At times, they fear us, but respect is something they hand out only selectively to women.”
― Isabelle Olmo, Lady of Istok

“Death is not a pretty thing, Almira said.
M nodded. No, it’s not, but neither is life.”
― Isabelle Olmo, Queen and Conqueror

“In that moment, she realized that bravery had nothing to do with swords and killing. Bravery was knowing who you were at all times.”
― Isabelle Olmo, Lady of Istok

“Men make vows with their mouths; women make vows with their hearts.”
― Isabelle Olmo, Queen and Conqueror

“Rats scurried the corners, licking the grease of pork sausages that still clung to discarded wrappers. A chill draft that danced in between the deteriorating buildings and cascaded down to one so old and seemingly frail.”
― Isabelle Olmo, Queen and Conqueror

“Perhaps from birth, women disappointed people. Women’s freedoms were conditional, distilled by unspoken commandments embedded into a society who suspected them based on their sex.”
― Isabelle Olmo, Lady of Istok

“What is a person without people? A ghost, that's what they are.”
― Isabelle Olmo, Lady of Istok